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Today: Left hand side of ASL, not track standing (can't) but making a reasonable go at staying in my clips on my SS. I'm waiting at a red to turn left onto Mile End Road and I know it's about to change so I'm ready enough. Lady on an MTB in a flouro gilet swings round my right, across my front and leers towards left hand railings, swerves back at a diagonal across my path and stops. The light goes green, she misses her pedal, gets going and goes.... straight on! I called her out gently so as not to startle her (not good to wake sleepwalkers I'm told) which is nothing compared to the horns and abuse she received from the drivers attempting a left and then the drivers she encroached upon who were up to speed going straight on.
Primarily I fear for her safety. Total and absolute lack of sense or control. Her stumbling insistence on being at the front of the queue nearly had her squished because she totally failed to be in the right place, to make her intentions known or to pull away.